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US6372461B1 US09/397,720 US39772099A US6372461B1 US 6372461 B1 US6372461 B1 US 6372461B1 US 39772099 A US39772099 A US 39772099A US 6372461 B1 US6372461 B1 US 6372461B1
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  • the present invention is related to the bioconversion of a carbon source to vanillin and more particularly, to methods of producing vanillin from a carbon source by microbe-catalyzed conversion of the carbon source to vanillic acid and enzyme-catalyzed reduction of vanillic acid to produce vanillin.
  • Natural vanillin is produced from glucovanillin (FIG. 1) when the beans of the orchid Vanilla planifolia are submitted to a multi-step curing process.
  • natural vanillin can supply only 2 ⁇ 10 4 kg/yr of the world's 1.2 ⁇ 10 7 kg/yr demand for vanillin. Clark, G. S., Perfum. Flavor . 15:45 (1990).
  • Vanillin is second only to aspartame in terms of market size for a food additive.
  • Vanilla extract derived from V. planifolia pods has the advantage of being labeled as a natural flavoring.
  • only relative small volumes of vanilla flavoring can be derived from V. planifolia cultivation.
  • Synthesis of vanillin from benzene-derived guaiacol is therefore the basis of large-scale industrial manufacture of vanillin. This vanillin however, can not be labeled as a natural flavoring and synthesis of vanillin from benzene-derived guaiacol is not environmentally benign.
  • the microbes and cultured plant cells used to process the ferulic acid give low titers of vanillin (approximately 1 g/L).
  • the bioconversion methods of the present invention comprise the steps of microbe-catalyzed conversion of a carbon source to vanillic acid followed by enzyme-catalyzed reduction of vanillic acid to produce vanillin.
  • the microbe-catalyzed conversion step of the present invention requires five enzymes which are provided by a recombinant microbe.
  • the recombinant microbe is Escherichia coli designed to cause dehydration of 3-dehydroshikimic acid and regioselective methylation of the resulting protocatechuic acid.
  • the enzyme-catalyzed reduction step of the present invention comprises the reduction of vanillic acid to vanillin by aryl-aldehyde dehydrogenase.
  • the aryl-aldehyde dehydrogenase is purified from Neurospora crassa.
  • the biocatalytic synthesis of vanillin provided herein is environmentally benign, economically attractive, and utilizes abundant renewable sources, as starting materials.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic illustrating various synthesis schemes for producing vanillin
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic illustrating the synthesis scheme of the present invention
  • FIG. 3 is a graph showing the effect over time of extracellular accumulation of various constituents on cells (g/L) and vanillate (mM);
  • FIG. 4 is a 1 H NMR of vanillin synthesized from glucose.
  • a bioengineered synthesis scheme for the production of vanillin from a carbon source is provided herein.
  • Methods of producing vanillin from a carbon source based on the synthesis scheme are also provided.
  • a method is provided wherein the carbon source is converted to vanillic acid by a recombinant microbe followed by the reduction of vanillic acid to vanillin by aryl-aldehyde dehydrogenase.
  • the aryl-aldehyde dehydrogenase is isolated from Neurospora crassa.
  • a single recombinant microbe may is employed to convert a carbon source to vanillic acid as well as reduce the vanillic acid to vanillin, e.g., the vanillic acid-synthesizing microbe may also express aryl-aldehyde dehydrogenase.
  • This “single-microbe conversion” may be carried out by any type of microbe sufficiently engineered to produce the desired outcome, including, but not limited to, E. coli , Klebsiella, Neurospora, Nocardia and Saccharomyces.
  • vanillic acid synthesized from a carbon source by one microbe is reduced to vanillin by a second microbe, wherein the second microbe expresses aryl-aldehyde dehydrogenase.
  • This “double-microbe conversion” may also be carried out by various types of microbes sufficiently engineered to produce the desired outcome. Neurospora and Nocardia are preferred as the second microbe, as both are known to naturally express aryl-aldehyde dehydrogenase.
  • the microbe-catalyzed conversion of the carbon source is to 3-dehydroshikimic acid followed by conversion of the 3-dehydroshikimic acid to vanillin.
  • the microbe-catalyzed conversion of the carbon source is to protocatechuic acid, followed by conversion of the protocatechuic acid to vanillin.
  • the conversion of 3-dehydroshikimic acid and/or protocatechuic acid to vanillin may be carried out by a second recombinant microbe engineered to provide such a conversion.
  • the bioconversion methods of the present invention are carried out under conditions of time, temperature, pH, nutrient type and concentration, aeration conditions, methionine supplementation, and limited glucose concentrations, to provide maximal conversion of the carbon source to vanillin.
  • a fed-batch fermentor is used to convert the carbon source to vanillic acid, followed by organic extraction of vanillic acid, e.g., acidification of the fermentation broth and extraction with organic solvent.
  • the fed-batch fermentor process and organic extraction methods are also known to those skilled in the art.
  • carbon source is meant to include biomass derived carbon sources including, but not limited to, xylose, arabinose, glucose and the intermediates (e.g., dicarboxylic acids) in the Krebs cycle, either alone or in combination.
  • the carbon source is glucose.
  • the recombinant microbe E. coli is employed in the methods of the present invention.
  • the E. coli comprises a mutated aroE locus and an aroB/aroZ cassette inserted into the serA locus.
  • This recombinant E. coli designated KL7, may further comprise a plasmid carrying an aroF FBR insert, a serA insert and a P tac COMT loci.
  • the lack of aroE-encoded shikimate dehydrogenase results in synthesis of 3-dehydroshikimic acid. It will be appreciated, however, that the aroE locus mutation is not essential and is employed to ensure sufficient 3-dehydroshikimic acid formation.
  • the 3-dehydroshikimic acid is converted into protocatechuic acid by genome-localized, aroZ-encoded 3-dehydroshikimate dehydratase.
  • Plasmid-localized P tac COMT encodes catechol-O-methyltransferase for conversion of protocatechuic acid into vanillic acid.
  • the two copies of aroB increase 3-dehydroquinate synthase activity to the point where the enzyme no longer impedes carbon flow. Snell, K. et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc . 118:5605 (1996).
  • the recombinant E. coil comprises plasmid pKL5.97A carrying an aroF FBR insert, a serA insert and two P tac COMT loci.
  • the aroF FBR insert encodes a 3-deoxy- D -arabino-heptulosonic acid 7-phosphate synthase isozyme insensitive to feedback inhibition which increases carbon flow into the common pathway. Due to a mutation in the E. coli genomic serA locus required for L -serine biosynthesis, growth in minimal salts medium and plasmid maintenance follows from expression of plasmid-localized serA.
  • the serA insert thus allows microbial growth in minimal salts medium, distinguishing the microbes containing the plasmid from non-plasmid containing microbes.
  • the recombinant E. coli comprises plasmid pKL5.96A which is identical to plasmid pKL5.97A except for a single P tac COMT locus as compared to the double P tac COMT loci in pKL5.97A.
  • the above-described preferred recombinant microbe of the present invention E. coli KL7/pKL5.97A
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  • the deposit will be maintained in the ATCC depository, which is a public depository, for a period of 30 years, or 5 years after the most recent request, or for the effective life of a patent, whichever is longer, and will be replaced if the deposit becomes depleted or nonviable during that period. Samples of the deposit will become available to the public and all restrictions imposed on access to the deposit will be removed upon grant of a patent on this application.
  • the following table sets forth the five enzymes required for the conversion of glucose to vanillic acid, the genes encoding same and the origin of the genes in the exemplary recombinant microbes of the present invention.
  • E. coli is specifically described herein as the microbe for carrying out the methods of the present invention, it will be appreciated that any microorganism such as the common types cited in the literature and known to those skilled in the art, may be employed, provided the microorganism can be altered to effect the desired conversion (e.g., carbon source to vanillic acid, carbon source to 3-dehydroshikimic acid, carbon source to protocatechuic acid, vanillic acid to vanillin, 3-dehydroshikimic acid to vanillin, protocatechuic acid to vanillin, etc.)
  • fungi, bacteria and yeasts will work in the methods of the present invention.
  • Such microorganisms may be developed, for example, through selection, mutation, and/or genetic transformation processes with the characteristic and necessary capability of converting one constituent of the synthesis scheme of the present invention to another. Methods for such development are well known to the skilled practitioner.
  • a solution containing a carbon source is contacted with the recombinant microbe to form a bioconversion mixture which is maintained under appropriate conditions to promote the conversion of the carbon source to the desired constituent, e.g., vanillic acid.
  • the bioconversion mixture is maintained at a temperature of about 30° C. to about 37° C. and a pH of about 6.5 to about 7.5. It is preferred that the bioconversion mixture also contain other substances necessary to promote the viability of the recombinant microbes such as mineral salts, buffers, cofactors, nutrient substances and the like. Methionine (L, D and L-D mixtures) may also be added to the bioconversion mixture.
  • the bioconversion mixture is preferably maintained in a steady state of dissolved oxygen concentration and thus is kept under glucose limited conditions, wherein the rate of glucose addition is determined by the level of dissolved oxygen concentration.
  • a preferred steady state over the course of fermentation is about 100 to about 200 ⁇ mol glucose or a dissolved oxygen concentration of about 5% to about 35% air saturation.
  • the more general requirements for the maintenance of viability of microorganisms are well known and specific requirements for maintaining the viability of specific microorganisms are also well known as documented in the literature, or are otherwise easily determined by those skilled in the art.
  • the vanillic acid may then be recovered from the bioconversion mixture by methods known in the art (e.g., organic extraction), and contacted with aryl-aldehyde dehydrogenase to produce vanillin.
  • KL7/pKL5.26A and KL7/pKL5.97A were cultured for 48 h under fed-batch fermentor conditions at 37° C., pH 7.0, and dissolved oxygen at 20% of saturation.
  • Extracellular accumulation (FIG. 3) of vanillic, isovanillic, protocatechuic, and 3-dehydroshikimic acids began in mid log phase of microbial growth.
  • 3-Dehydroshikimic acid usually constituted 5-10 mol % of the total product mixture indicating that the rates for its biosynthesis and dehydration were nearly equal.
  • the molar dominance of protocatechuic acid (FIG. 3, Table 2) relative to vanillic acid pointed to inadequate catechol-O-methyltransferase activity.
  • Aryl-aldehyde dehydrogenase (Gross, G. G. et al., Biochem. Biophy. Res. Commun . 32:173 (1968); Gross, G. G. et al., Eur. J. Biochem . 8:413 (1969); Gross, G. G., Eur. J. Biochem . 31:585 (1972); Zenk, M. H. et al., Recent Adv. Phytochem . 4:87 (1972)) in Neurospora crassa mycelial extract was purified away from an unwanted dehydrogenase which reduced vanillin to vanillyl alcohol.
  • Vanillic, protocatechuic, and isovanillic acids were extracted into EtOAc after acidification of fermentor broth.
  • a subsequent reprecipitation step increased the vanillic acid/protocatechuic acid ratio from 1:2 to 2.5:1 (mol/mol).
  • the resulting aromatic mixture was incubated with glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (to recycle NADP + ) 25 and aryl-aldehyde dehydrogenase at 30° C. and pH 8.0 using 0.07 equiv of NADP + and 2 equiv of ATP relative to vanillic acid.
  • Reduction of vanillic acid to vanillin proceeded in 92% yield in 7 h.
  • HPLC analyses employed a Rainin instrument, isocratic elution (17:2:1 H 2 O/CH 3 CN/CH 3 CO 2 H v/v), a C18 column (5 ⁇ m, Rainin Microsorb-MVTM, 4.6 ⁇ 250 mm), and detection measured at 250 nm. Samples were quantitated by comparison of the peak area of each component with a standard curve. Protein concentrations were determined using the Bradford dye-binding procedure (Bradford, M. M., Anal. Biochem . 72:248 (1976)) by comparison with a standard curve prepared from bovine serum albumin. Protein assay solution was purchased from Bio-Rad.
  • the first solution (4 mL) contained sodium phosphate (125 mM) pH 7.4, MgCl 2 (6.25 mM), S-adenosyl- L -methionine (0.75 mM), and protocatechuic acid (0.5 mM).
  • Precipitated protein was removed by centrifugation using a Beckman microfuge and components in the resulting supernatant quantitated by HPLC.
  • One unit of catechol-O-methyltransferase activity was defined as the formation of 1 ⁇ mol of vanillic acid and isovanillic acid per min at 37° C.
  • Aryl-aldehyde dehydrogenase assay solution (1 mL) containing Tris-HCl (100 mM) pH 8.0, MgCl 2 (10 mM), dithiothreitol (20 mM), NADPH (0.15 mM), ATP (20 mM), and benzoic acid (4 mM) was incubated at 30° C.
  • benzoic acid reduction was monitored at 340 nm using a Hewlett Packard 8452A UV-Vis spectrophotometer.
  • One unit of activity is defined as the loss of 1 ⁇ mol of NADPH per min at 30° C.
  • Buffers included buffer A, Tris-HCl (100 mM) and L -cysteine (10 mM), pH 7.6; buffer B, Tris-HCl (50 mM), EDTA (1 mM), DTT (1 mM), and PMSF (0.4 mM), pH 7.6; buffer C, Tris-HCl (50 mM), EDTA (1 mM), DTT (1 mM), PMSF (0.4 mM), and KCl (400 mM), pH 7.6; buffer D, Tris-HCl (20 mM), EDTA (0.4 mM), DTT (0.4 mM), and PMSF (0.15 mM), pH 7.5; and buffer E, Tris-HCl (20 mM), EDTA (0.4 mM), DTT (
  • the solid growth medium (1 L) contained sucrose (20 g), sodium citrate dihydrate (2.5 g), KH 2 PO 4 (5.0 g), NH 4 NO 3 (2.0 g), CaCl 2 ⁇ 2H 2 O (0.1 g), MgSO 4 (0.1 g), biotin (5.0 ⁇ g), and trace elements including citric acid monohydrate (5.0 mg), ZnSO 4 ⁇ 7H 2 O (5.0 mg), Fe(NH 4 ) 2 (SO 4 ) 2 ⁇ 6H 2 O (1.0 mg), CuSO 4 ⁇ 5H 2 O (0.25 mg), MnSO 4 ⁇ H 2 O (0.05 mg), H 3 BO 3 (0.05 mg), Na 2 MoO 4 ⁇ 2H 2 O (0.05 mg).
  • Difco agar was added to the medium solution at a concentration of 2% (w/v).
  • the liquid growth medium differed from solid growth medium only in the addition of Difco yeast extract (2.0 g/L) and sodium salicylate (1.6 g/L).
  • N. crassa SY 7A was grown on solid growth medium at 24° C. for 7 days and a mixture of mycelium and spores was obtained. After suspension in sterilized water, the mixture of mycelium and spores was filtered through sterilized glass wool. The resulting spore suspension was stored at 4° C. Fresh spores stored at 4° C.
  • the column was washed with 500 mL of buffer B followed by elution with a linear gradient (1.5 L+1.5 L, buffer B-buffer C). Fractions containing aryl-aldehyde dehydrogenase were combined and concentrated to 30 mL. After dialysis against buffer D (3 ⁇ ), The protein was loaded on a RedA column (2.5 ⁇ 8 cm) equilibrated with buffer D. The column was washed with 200 mL buffer D and eluted with a linear gradient (150 mL+150 mL, buffer D/buffer E). Active fractions were concentrated, quick frozen in liquid nitrogen, and stored at ⁇ 80° C.
  • Fermentations employed a 2.0 L capacity Biostat MD B-Braun fermentor connected to a DCU system and a Compaq computer equipped with B-Braun MFCS software for data acquisition and automatic process monitoring.
  • the temperature, pH and glucose feeding were controlled with a PID controller.
  • the temperature was maintained at 37° C. pH was maintained at 7.0 by addition of concentrated NH 4 OH or 2 N H 2 SO 4 .
  • Dissolved oxygen (D.O.) was measured using a Braun polarographic probe. D.O. was maintained at 20% air saturation over the entire course of the fermentation.
  • Antifoam (Sigma 204) was added manually as needed.
  • LB medium contained Bacto tryptone (10 g), Bacto yeast extract (5 g), and NaCl (10 g).
  • Fermentation medium (1 L) contained K 2 HPO 4 (7.5 g), ammonium iron(III) citrate (0.3 g), citric acid monohydrate (2.1 g), and concentrated H 2 SO 4 (1.2 mL). The culture medium was adjusted to pH 7 by addition of concentrated NH 4 OH before autoclaving.
  • D -Glucose, MgSO 4 , and aromatic amino acids were autoclaved while aromatic vitamins and trace minerals were sterilized through 0.22 ⁇ m membranes prior to addition to the medium.
  • Antibiotics were added where appropriate to the following final concentrations: chloramphenicol (Cm), 20 ⁇ g/mL; ampicillin (Ap), 50 ⁇ g/mL.
  • Solid medium was prepared by addition of 1.5% (w/v) Difco agar to medium solution.
  • Inoculants were grown in 100 mL LB medium (enriched with 2 g glucose) containing the appropriate antibiotic for 12 h at 37° C. with agitation at 250 rpm and then transferred to the fermentor.
  • the initial glucose concentration in the fermentation medium was 20 g/L.
  • L -Methionine supplementation when employed, consisted of addition of a filter-sterilized solution containing 0.4 g of this amino acid in timed intervals (6 h) starting at 12 h after initiation of a fermentor run.
  • Three different methods were used to maintain dissolved oxygen (D.O.) levels at 20% air saturation during each 48 h fermentor run. The dissolved oxygen concentration was first maintained by increasing the impeller speed.
  • the mass flow controller then maintained D.O. levels at 20% saturation at constant impeller speed by increasing the airflow rate over approximately 2 h from 0.06 L/L/min to a preset maximum of 1.0 L/L/min.
  • D.O. levels were maintained at 20% saturation for the remainder of the fermentation by oxygen sensor-controlled glucose feeding.
  • dissolved oxygen levels fell below 20% saturation due to residual initial glucose in the medium. This lasted for approximately 1 h before glucose (60% w/v) feeding started.
  • the PID control parameters were set to 0.0 (off for the derivative control ( T D ), 999.9 s (minimum control action) for the integral control ( T l ), and 950.0% for the proportional band (X p ).
  • catechol-O-methyltransferase activity is the average of 12 h and 36 h specific activities. After 48 h, cells were removed by centrifugation at 16000 g for 10 min and the supernatant stored at 4° C.
  • the collected precipitate was dissolved in a solution (100 mL) containing Tris-HCl (200 mM), pH 8.0, MgCl 2 (100 mM), DTT (10 mM), ATP (60 mM), NADP + (2 mM), glucose 6-phosphate (60 mM), 2,000 units of glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase and 200 unit of the partially purified aryl-aldehyde dehydrogenase. Reduction proceeded at 30° C. and was monitored by HPLC. After 7 h reaction, 92% (mol/mol) of the starting vanillic acid and 34% (mol/mol) of the protocatechuic acid had been reduced. The reaction mixture was extracted with 100 mL CH 2 Cl 2 (3 ⁇ ). The combined organic extracts were washed one time with equal volume of water. Concentration afforded a powder consisting of (FIG. 4) vanillin (0.30 g) and isovanillin (0.03 g).
  • vanillate-synthesizing microbe designed with a protocatechuic acid uptake system so that protocatechuic acid escaping into the culture supernatant can be transported back into the cytoplasm for methylation, would also be desirable.
  • Biocatalytic synthesis of vanillin from a carbon source such as glucose has a number of advantages relative to other biocatalytic vanillin syntheses.
  • Coniferol formed during phenylpropanoid biosynthesis, is converted into coniferin by a glucosyltransferase in Vanilla planifolia .
  • Coniferin is then transformed into glucovanillin which is finally hydrolyzed by a ⁇ -glucosidase.
  • Ranadive A.
  • Corrosive H 2 O 2 used for oxidation of phenol into catechol requires special handling precautions (Campbell, C. J. et al., Sci. Am . 278(3):78 (1998)) while biocatalytically synthesized vanillin derives its oxygen atoms from the oxygen atoms of glucose.
  • Dimethyl sulfate, a carcinogen, (Campbell, C. J. et al., Sci. Am . 278(3):78 (1998)) has historically been used to methylate catechol.
  • Protocatechuic acid methylation employs S-adenosylmethionine generated and consumed intracellularly.
  • synthetic vanillin manufacture is based on use of nonrenewable petroleum whereas glucose is derived from abundant, renewable starch. This difference in feedstock utilization is important given projected fierce international competition as global petroleum production diminishes. Campbell, C. J. et al., Sci. Am . 278(3):78 (1998).

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